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‘Certayn⁾,’ tho said the knyght,

‘That theffe I saw to nyght,

Here be-side a slade. 1660

Torrent tells her to

He was a ferly freke in ffyght,

With hym faught a yong knyght,

Ech on other laid good lade;

Me thought well̴, as he stode,

He was of the fendus blood, 1665

So Rude was he made.

Dame, yf thou leve not me, [1680]

come and see the Giant.

Com⁾ nere, and thou shalt se,

Which of hem abade.’

1660. slate or flate MS.

1663. lode MS.

1669. abode MS.